WCU BOOK REVIEW: Book on PayPal's early battles timely as Google enters the payment systems war

8:08 PM,
Jul. 30, 2006

Written by

Barbara Jo White
Special to Citizen-Times

The PayPal wars are heating up again. Are you one of the more than 40 million people with a PayPal ac-count? Consider a quick summer read about the history of PayPal.

In "The PayPal Wars: Battles with eBay, the Media, the Mafia and the Rest of Planet Earth," Eric Jackson, PayPal's former director of marketing, will take you on an exciting journey from the time just after PayPal's inception in 1999 until it was sold just a few years later to eBay.The problems Jackson describes for a young business - building up a customer base quickly before operating cash runs out, keeping a watchful eye on your ...